Sir Auckland Geddes said at Nottingham on Tuesday that, as
Minister of National Service, he did not propose to drive any one, but rather to give a lead. He made no general appeal for men. " When I want men for a job." he said, " I propose to say so, and to say what the job is, and what the terms are." That, it seems to us, is plain common-sense. The general appeals made earlier in the year for men and women to whom there was no definite employment to offer were both wasteful and discouraging. Sir Auckland Geddes said that more mar were required in the shipyards, the steelworks, and the aircraft industry. He will, we trust, be able to find them He wanted the persons who employ many servants that the country cannot afford the waste of human power. He did not, he said, want to draw away the general servants from email middlemlass homes, but to relieve households with more than three servants of their superfluity. Whether Sir Auck- land Geddes can induce women of that class to go is another question. He rebuked the " great mass of young, quite healthy, middle-class femininity which is doing nothing really to help the war along."
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